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I wrote several articles about conducting genealogical research in Germany and how to take the first step. For us, that research had a few...

Our house has 8 kilowatts of solar generation and 27 kilowatt-hours of battery storage, and is on a time-of-day electricity plan where pow...

We are on a Time-of-Day electricity plan, the PG&E EV2 plan . Our cost for electricity is:     Summer Winter Off-Peak 12am - 3pm...

The phrase "too cheap to meter" entered the energy discourse in the 20th century, referring to the potential of nuclear power. T...

This is the second post in a series about conducting genealogical research in Germany. The earlier post is " German Genealogical Resear...

We have a 2016 Kia Soul EV. It uses a 27kWh battery pack, quite small compared to other electric vehicles which commonly have 50+ kilowatt...

I'd like to talk about genealogy for a bit. In the process of gradually becoming my father, who was very much interested in family histo...

We had a Mitsubishi mini-split heat pump system installed in 2019, to replace a pair of gas furnaces. We love the system, but finding an i...

California invested heavily in solar and wind starting more than a decade ago. So far in 2024 renewable sources have met 100% of the state...

Diverging from the usual topics: we took the whole fam to Germany this summer. We arrived in Frankfurt on July 5, and took a train to Bingen...

Rivian’s revised R1 vehicles look really nice. They focussed strongly on production cost, to make each vehicle sale more profitable. Their r...

A few weeks ago the US Department of Energy finalized efficiency requirements for residential electric tank water heaters . The efficiency r...

The universal first troubleshooting step is to reboot. No matter what the product is, no matter what the problem is, try turning it off and ...

SF Climate Week is drawing to a close. For me the highlight was being in the audience for a live recording of the My Climate Journey podcas...

This is SF Climate Week , a week of talks and events about climate change mitigation, adaptation, and solutions. Many of the...